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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Baker, Peter, 1967-     Subjects     Baker, James Addison, 1930-     Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.     Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-     Browse Catalog     by author:      Baker, Peter, 1967-       by title:      The man who ran Wash...       by call number:      923.273 B168b     Search the Web     Baker, Peter, 1967-     Baker, James Addison, 1930-     Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.     Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-       MARC Display

The man who ran Washington : the life and times of James A. Baker III / Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. by Baker, Peter, 1967- Doubleday, 2020. Call #: 923.273 B168b Subjects Baker, James Addison, 1930-   Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.   Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.   United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989.   United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- ISBN:  9780385540551 (hc.) Alternate title:  Life and times of James A. Baker III Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xxii, 694 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 590-663) and index. Summary:  "From two of America’s most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a page-turning portrait of a power broker who influenced America’s destiny for generations. A scion of Texas aristocracy who became George H. W. Bush’s best friend on the tennis courts of the Houston Country Club, Baker had never even worked in Washington until a devastating family tragedy struck when he was thirty-nine. Within a few years, he was leading Gerald Ford’s campaign and would go on to manage a total of five presidential races and win a sixth for George W. Bush in a Florida recount. He ran Ronald Reagan’s White House and became the most consequential secretary of state since Henry Kissinger. He negotiated with Democrats at home and Soviets abroad, rewrote the tax code, assembled the coalition that won the Gulf War, brokered the reunification of Germany and helped bring a decades-long nuclear superpower standoff to an end. Ruthlessly partisan during campaign season, Baker governed as the avatar of pragmatism over purity and deal-making over division, a lost art in today’s fractured nation. His story is a case study in the acquisition, exercise, and preservation of power in late twentieth-century America and the story of Washington and the world in the modern era–how it once worked and how it has transformed into an era of gridlock and polarization. This masterly biography by two brilliant observers of the American political scene is destined to become a classic. "--From the publisher. Other authors:  Glasser, Susan. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 923.273 B168b Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 923.273 B168b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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